Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

WOW Allen that is one nice looking instrument. Can we have a sound sample when able. Cheers

Looks great. A true labour of love!!

Hi,

Pablo Requena has just finished a great series on french polishing which covers most of the questions I had on the issue very well. You might want to take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4z14Vjkxk&t=1222s

Andrew

Sounds exquisite and looks great Wayne

Looks great. I see there is a question on what it sounds like. Be interested to know

Wow what a great piece of work. When I grow up I want to be able to do that!!

What a great project Michael. Looks great... nice to hear it if we could.

Andrew

What a nice looking guitar... Love the inlay
Great work!!

Great looking guitar. Out of interest what is the scale length, Neck joint? Im building at the moment and always nice to know what the detail is.

Thanks
Andrew

Great work. Building a classical at the moment... nice to see what it should look like!

Dennis, In the same way as you hardened them is fine. Use the visual method to gauge temperature as per the previous attachment or use thermo markers if you want to be consistently accurate. A link attached https://www.weldclass.com.au/product-group/2040-temperature-markers-thermomelt/category/172-m...

Obviously not very good at this guys. Travel gets me!! (Just found the notify me when a reply posted) So the colour of steel being heated to 200 deg C is light yellow. See attachment. As quenched, steel is brittle and will chip easily... but in the hands of a careful person they are fine. Tempered i...

Sorry for the delay in this but only just joined the Forum. For sake of completeness a Temperature of 860degC quenched in oil would get a better result as the transformation to martensite would be complete and a hardness of around 59HRC achieved, if the material is 1060 as most claim it is. A light ...